0 sats \ 2 replies \ @didiplaywell 18 Oct \ on: Politicians are not like us. Never forget meta
I strongly disagree. One thing I have learned in this tumultuous political years in Argentina is that politicians are a crystal clear reflection of what we are as a society. They very much are us in the most fundamental sense. We must look at them with attention for they are the most reliable indicator we have respect to the current state of the population moral compass.
On the other hand, I like to strictly separate the bureaucrat class (aka modern nobility) from the civilian class (aka the plebs). Bureaucrats are distinct from politicians in that they remain hidden, leaving people to fight its own reflection (politicians) while they silently profit on the privileges people not only wont question but even will demand ("the state should regulate this!!").
It sounds like you are saying we get the politians we deserve. I agree. This is why I suggest focusing on building community. If people didn't accept the nonsense political figures say. If they used their brains and didn't believe the lies. If they didn't blindly trust authorities those authorities would be forced to change their tactics. But in the US that's not the case.
Both parties have the plebs all spun up. It's intential. They won't fix it. We must fix our communities. If we have stronger bonds the scumbags in Washington would have less power.
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It sounds like you are saying we get the politicians we deserve.
Yes, it's a more pragmatic way to put it. It should be stressed, because the first tendency is towards victimization, but it's as fruitful as to victimize one-self for the own errors, keeping us in an eternal loop of decadence, as the one we are seeing now.
If people didn't accept the nonsense political figures say.
I would again focus on people for that matter. Politicians are sellers, they will sell nothing but what people demand. So whenever you hear a politician saying blatant nonsense, hate him not but the no-less-than-20% of the population that already believes what he just said (so he must say it to garner those votes).
It was/is the exact same in Argentina. The previous president literally said on TV that "inflation was due to diabolic influences". To most of us it will sound like if he just got insane, but nope: by then I had already been making questionnaires on the street and an alarming percentage of people actually believed that to stop inflation the central bank had to be cleaned out of demons. It was an eye opening work: no politician ever says anything that people isn't believing already: that's where they take their material from.
Anyone you hear "repeating what they said on TV" already believes it, but they express it openly only once they get that highly official external validation, to elude the unbearable questioning of what they want/like to believe.
We must fix our communities. If we have stronger bonds the scumbags in Washington would have less power.
Yes, that's the one and only way. But again, not out of victimization in the tone of "us against that enemy" but on redemption in the tone of "us against our flaws".
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